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Eric Gales and Devon Allman to host two-night Albert King tribute concert with Gibson Gives
By Matt Owen published
The event will also benefit the National Blues Museum, which has appointed Gales as the newest member of its board of directors

Watch Eric Gales and Carlos Santana share the stage at the 1994 Woodstock Festival
By Matt Owen published
A young Gales featured alongside his godfather for a blistering five-minute performance, which included all the hallmarks of what would become his own brand of blues

Eric Gales: “I could just look at a guitar and almost start crying! I have never been more in touch with myself than I am now”
By Andy Aledort published
The undisputed champ of electric blues guitar unpacks the styles and inspirations behind his latest album, the Joe Bonamassa-produced tour-de-force aptly titled Crown

Watch Eric Gales and Joe Bonamassa treat an intimate Memphis crowd to a 13-minute, dueling solo-fueled I Want My Crown
By Jackson Maxwell published
Gales invited his friend – and fellow blues guitar maestro – to the stage at the release party for his new, Bonamassa and Josh Smith-produced album, Crown

Eric Gales marks the release of his highly-anticipated album, Crown, with powerful new Stand Up music video
By Jackson Maxwell published
Gales opens the deeply personal video with a dedication to "anyone who has ever felt discriminated against"

Eric Gales, one of the greatest electric guitar players on the planet, reveals he actually prefers playing acoustic
By Matt Owen published
The bluesman says he has a whole acoustic double album in reserve that will "take the world by storm"

Eric Gales reveals what it cost to get Joe Bonamassa to produce his new album
By Matt Owen published
It turns out JoBo's production rates are far cheaper than you'd imagine – Gales managed to get him onboard for just two cans of Diet Coke

Eric Gales lights a fire under the blues shuffle form on explosive new single, You Don't Know The Blues
By Jackson Maxwell published
The second single from the Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith-produced Crown is a feast of fretboard-melting blues guitar fire

Magneto Guitars unveils new-and-improved iteration of Eric Gales’ Strat-style signature, the RD-3
By Matt Owen published
Newly voiced Metro-Pole single-coils, Gotoh hardware and a luxurious Sunset Gold finish head up Gales' latest Magneto model

Watch Eric Gales turn in one of 2021's most astonishing live guitar solos onstage with Gary Clark Jr.
By Jackson Maxwell published
Joining Clark for an 11-minute rendition of When My Train Pulls In in Greensboro, North Carolina, Gales stole the show with an extended blues-rock guitar workout for the ages
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